blackness

Significat (Anglès)

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being black in colour.
2. (uncountable, usually) Any space that such colour pervades.
3. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Darkness, gloominess; depression.
4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) The quality of being evil or dismal.
5. (uncountable, usually) The state of being of African descent.
6. (uncountable, usually) The experiences and culture of African-American people.

Conceptes

negror

negre

Sinònims

darkness

black

black color

lightlessness

total darkness

inkiness

pitch blackness

gloom

murkiness

duskiness

ebony

night

🌃

nigrescence

nigritude

obscureness

opacity

shadow

soot

sootiness

unfinished

black stain

black colour

quarry-faced

sableness

black color

black colour

blacken

blackening

blackish

dark

deep black

dimness

dirt

dusk

Traduccions

noirceur

Schwärze

negrura

zwartheid

Dunkelheit

obscurité

negror

oscuridad

noir

negrura

nigredo

atritas

nigror

oscurità

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈblæknəs/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: blaknesse

In summary

Inherited from Middle English blaknesse, equivalent to black + -ness. Sense 5 most likely both originated from the masque The Masque of Blackness by Ben Jonson and later changed to its current positive sense.

Frases

I remember how I sat on the table there in the blackness , with patches of green and crimson swimming before my eyes .